The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought
Contents
ARTICLES
The Priority of Quantitative Measure as a Challenge to the Humanities
The Importance of Thomas S. Kuhn's
Scientific Paradigm Theory to Literary Criticism
The Perverted Self in American Literature and Culture
The Ethical Dimension of Wuthering Heights
Dashiell Hammett in the Wasteland
Isolation Imagery in The Graduate: A Contrast in Media
POEMS
The Head at the Desk
Wendy's Complaint
Leaving Together
Song for Renetta at McDonald's on 4th St.
The Fisherman Casts His Line into the Sea
The Unbeliever's Cross
March Storm
Waking Up Naked on Mother's Day
Pornographic, for Nathaniel Hawthorne
Insulation
Theodora's Dream
Brittle January, Absolute Zero
How to Shoot Your Lover
Abstract
in this issue . . .
STEPHEN L. TANNER, who discusses the challenge to the humanities presented by the current emphasis on quantitative measure, received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches English at the University of Idaho. His articles, mostly on American literature, have appeared in numerous journals.
STEVEN T. RYAN, who assesses the importance of Kuhn's theory of scientific paradigms to our understanding of literary history and of contemporary literature, received his Ph. D. from the University of Utah and teaches English at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.
SAM B. GIRGUS, who examines a recurrent concept of the self in our literature and culture received his Ph. D. from the University of New Mexico, where he is the chairman of the Department of American Studies. His articles have appeared in a number of journals, including MQ.
EMILIO DE GRAZIA, who looks into the ethics of Wuthering Heights and also reviews Greg Kuzma' s Nebraska, teaches English at Winona State University and edits The Great River Review. His articles, poems, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines.
HOMER H. MORRIS, who writes about Dashiell Hammett, received his degrees from Pittsburg State University and is Associate Dean for Humanistic Studies at Harford Community College in Maryland. He has published articles and stories in a variety of magazines.
CARROL L. FRY, who with Jared Stein discusses the imagery in The Graduate, received her Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. She is chairman of the Department of English at Northwest Missouri State University and has published articles on British fiction.
JARED STEIN, Professor Fry's collaborator, formerly taught speech and directed plays at Northwest Missouri State University.
JENNINGS BLACKMON, who reviews Robert Bly's Kabir Book, received his Ph. D. from the University of Arkansas and teaches English at Pittsburg State University.
CHARLES EDWARD EATON's sixth collection of poems, The Man in the Green Chair, was published last spring by A. S. Barnes and Co. He lives in Connecticut.
JONATHAN GILLESPIE is an editor for the Briarcliff Press in Atlanta. He was head-waiter at last summer's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
STEPHEN HIND lives in Hutchinson, Kansas. He has recently published poems in Kansas Quarterly and The Ark River Review.
ROBERT HOLLAND is a writer-editor for the Army Corps of Engineers. One of his poems in this issue, "The Unbeliever's Cross," won the Academy of American Poets Prize at Emory University in 1975. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.
PHILIP LEGLER teaches at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. He has new work in The Paris Review and Yankee.
TOMAS O'LEARY teaches at Northeastern in Boston. He was a recreational director at last year's Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
A. G. SOBIN edits The Ark River Review in Wichita. His poems have appeared widely in magazines, including The Paris Review, Poetry Now, and The Beloit Poetry Journal. He will have new work in a forthcoming issue of The American Poetry Review. He has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant in creative writing.
NANCE VAN WINCKEL's poem in this issue is the title poem for her new collection, which is presently in search of a publisher. Her work has appeared in Epoch, The Fiddlehead, Nimrod, and will soon be represented in Best Poems of 1976. She teaches at Marymount College in Salina, Kansas.
RONALD WALLACE has published his poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, and The North American Review. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Recommended Citation
Tanner, Stephen L.; Ryan, Steven T.; Girgus, Sam B.; De Grazia, Emilio; Morris, Homer H.; Fry, Carrol L.; Stein, Jared; Eaton, Charles Edward; Gillespie, Jonathan; Hind, Steven; Holland, Robert; Legler, Philip; O'Leary, Tomas; Wallace, Ronald; Sobin, A. G.; Van Winckel, Nance; and Midwest Quarterly Editors
(1978)
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